Friday, November 12, 2010

Hi everyone!
I've got about 2 seconds online before I have to jump on a tricycad (a tiny motorbike with a bit of a seat attatched to it) to tear off up to the little school with ice cream for the children.
This adventure has changed my life. I'm going to have to think pretty hard about how best to share it with you when I return to Australia. It's indescribable to feed people who are starving. To actually do something for them that has an immediate and resounding effect on their lives. The little children have stolen my heart, and I'm dreading saying goodbye to them. The reality is that some of them will not survive to adulthood, but the sisters have been magnificent in encouraging me to establish bonds with them, and to help us stay in close contact with them - probably a bit like sponsor children, but more like extended family... and I've been lucky enough to spend a significant amount of time meeting their familes and becoming very familiar with the huge difficulties of their day to day survival, and we have become extremely close. I've learnt that language is no barrier to the giving and receiving of love.
Best wishes to you all - we have the precious fridge we have bought arriving this afternoon... the salesman, Victor, has proposed marriage and I'm seriously considering accepting him in exchange for more whitegoods for the school.
Mabuhay (cheers)!! xo

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"Blue jean baby, L.A. lady, seamstress for the band
Pretty eyed, pirate smile, you'll marry a music man
Ballerina, you must have seen her dancing in the sand
And now she's in me, always with me, tiny dancer in my hand."

"You'll be a hard act to follow, a bitter pill to swallow, you'll be tough, oh you're tough to replace"

"People say she's crazy, she's got diamonds on the soles of her shoes. Well, I guess that's one way to lose these walking blues: diamonds on the soles of her shoes"

She laid me out on the laundromat floor, said "you'll be not nealy who you are anymore, and I'll always be here to remind you what time is for."